Alan Moore's writing is at its best when he's waxing on about the complexity of the universe and delivering punchy one-liners ending those conversations. Not wishing to spoil the party, she summoned up an array of imaginary beings to amaze the children.As she and her conjurings were leaving, and unknown to Promethea, one of them, the Pied Piper, warned the Temple that if they moved against Promethea again, he’d come calling. This is so Alan Moore and so interesting. It's somewhat a superhero goddess Alice in Wonderland type story. It's trippy and the meaning of life is discussed. It's a very interesting story. I really appreciate the artwork. I hope I can get some more of these because I would like to read more. Deciding to follow Barbara and make sure her friend was okay, Sophie convinced Stacia to act as Promethea while she’s away.Stacia allowed Grace Branaugh to again take over her body, combining aspects of both of them to create a new Promethea.Sophie, as Promethea, travels beyond Immateria, into the higher spheres. Into the higher spheres The story goes that if you go looking for stories they will come looking for you. It has happened before. Sophie has been thinking about Promethea. People think about Promethea a lot. She is writing for college about how people think about Promethea a lot. I liked that Sophie wrote her own poem about Promethea. It's when she does her own thinking about her. According to the other Prometheas (they are all watching her from the world of imagination, called Immateria) and the bad guys she's in the new stage when she is still part herself, part Promethea. I like that she doesn't know who her Promethea is if she's writing the story with her. Some of the other girls (and one man, Bill) were made into Promethea by male writers. I loved the later chapter when they take down the ghost writers for the pseudonym for the trashy 1920s pulp series about her. The poet that made his "muse", the housemaid Anna, into his phantom lover from his own story (ghost child and all) was moving. She loved him. He never loved Anna. She's behind the vision and he doesn't see her. My guess is that Moore really wanted to write about male fantasies imposed on women who act them out here. I don't know because I'm not that far into the series yet (there are only six comics in this collected "volume one" edition), but how much was Anna, and how much was Promethea? The Promethea girls seem to share a collected memory, yet are their own women. Some, like Margaret, embody the archetypal image more. Save them and clasp their teary eyed faces to her hoo-has. Margaret wears wispy fabric to barely cover her bosom and bottom. She wants to comfort the soldiers who really just want their mothers. Grace Brannagh rebels against the writers of those trashy Hy Brasil warrior princess novels (her breasts have never heaved, thank you very much). I love Grace because she's her own Promethea (damn the man) but I suspect my favorite may be Barbara. Her introduction has been in the mortal world (she's dying by the end of what I've read, though). Her Promethea imagination wasn't a lot and hers resembled her self very much. That would be interesting to explore as Sophie still wants to be Sophie and not just Promethea. But who is Sophie, besides a college student in uniform of jeans and a tank top? I wish this was real, that the world of the imagination was a place you could live in. I wish that you could write about Promethea and be her. I don't know if I'd want to be me at all. I wish that Moore had wanted to write about that and less about sending up what others have done. What do those girl heroine comics mean to the Promethea comic creators other than other dudes liked them to dress up in tight outfits and have them narrowly miss the fatal grasp of some big bad dude? If you want to write about it at all it should make you wonder why would this woman Anna be someone else's Promethea? Who was Sophie that she would do this at all? What attracted her to this woman that a lot of others before her thought about? Besides the skimpy outfits. Sophie puts her Promethea in hard golden casing (mini skirt style). I really don't care about clothes.

As soon as Stacia awakens in the Material World, she is shot by federal agents, who are after her for her actions as Promethea.Stacia is left in a coma.Sophie’s mother has a premonition about the danger, and manages to send her away before the FBI arrive. Immateria serves as the gateway between the Material World and the other 9 spheres (or Sephiroths) beyond.There are 22 pathways between the spheres, and, while they may be reached from the Material World by breaching the walls which separate them, the only consistent path between them and the Material World is through Immateria.

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NEXT TIME: Promethea takes an extended tour through the history of magical thinking, and Alan Moore seems to completely abandon the idea of telling a story, at least for a while.

The facial expressions I tuned out the way I will forget that I'm reading subtitles on foreign films. I didn't notice them the way I do in other pictures. The good feeling of spacing out and the slightest change in posture from panel to panel means something to me. The only one that really meant anything to me was Barbara the heavier Promethea. I could see Barbara in the Promethea. That was something. She imagined Promethea as herself. Maybe she didn't know how to relate to Promethea so she was just herself (I guess this is saying she's like Keanu Reeves or some other bad actor that doesn't really do anything. If you want to look at it that way). But I liked it because she's there and I could look at the pictures to puzzle out Promethea parts and Barbara parts. I'm not too sure about the futuristic setting of 1999 either. I feel the storytelling yearning is timeless anyway. I guess the art is like when you get to the Munchkin village and everything is in technicolor. You want to be in fantasy land but what if there is a big bad witch and what if you are going to want to get home. I looked at what else was going on. But I didn't feel what they wanted on their faces. I miss that because that's what I am always studying in films and in life to maybe some day (I wish) know what the hell people mean and if I can believe it or not. I kinda wish these faces were more interesting, since there is a lot more behind the imagination than the story. There should be. I'm less a fan of the art than the story because of the faces. The utopia shown here is similar to that promised by early superhero comics. Superheroes are flawed, but they keep the city running smoothly. Government and infrastructure function like well-oiled machines so that the focal point of the story might occur in a realm where mysticism and the detached irony of late-'90s culture collide. On surface less political than Moore's other works, Promethea still posits a universe in which ancient laws attempt to subjugate women and in which the women escape to a more empowered place to survive and even thrive. It’s a mess of ambition and artistry and experimentation and sometimes it works and sometimes it seems like it doesn’t, but even if it can be a challenge to actually engage with as a story, Promethea is impossible not to feel strongly about. Sorry, but there are a LOT of episodes here; 14 - 24 or so, where the artwork is gorgeous, the theme of the Sepher is persistent and the mood is seriously SERIOUSLY preachy. There are mini storylines and characters within it all, some of them very good, but overall, it is the writer preaching to you about what he thinks things mean from the Sepher and how they relate to the real world. Sometimes this happens in seriously mind bending scripts that are hard to read. Un lector podría llegar a creer que estamos ante un cómic de superhéroes (y puede que Moore use esa apariencia como Caballo de Troya para meternos su visión del mundo o hacer que nos metamos nosotros en ella), pero es mucho más, es una de esas obras mágicas que reflexiona sobre la historia de la humanidad, el chiste de Crowley, los juegos de palabras que surgen del nombre de Promethea… Entiendo que haya lectores, no obstante, que no quieran pasar por esto: no pasa nada, hay más cómics, libros, películas… esperando. Otros que sí quieran emprender el viaje de Promethea, son más que bien recibidos si desean descubrir que hay más mundos que este, mundos que irradian imaginación y fascinación.

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Sophie’s role as Promethea is to usher in the End of the World.“The World” is not the planet, or the life on it, but the systems, politics, economies, etc. – the ideas of the World.Thus the End is actually a wave of simultaneous global enlightenment ending the generally accepted worldview. I get that Moore was seriously trying to use the AMAZING wealth of symbolism and magic in this series, up to now it had worked well. Here though, is where, for me, it started to wobble on the wheel a little. ocasiones se vuelva tan explicativo que parezca más un manual que una historia, me quedo con esa Promethea que simboliza un nexo de unión entre las obras

Sphere three is Binah (’Understanding‘).It is the highest female sphere, a place of holy, reverential, silence, where communication is directly via minds.This is the home of the Goddess, of whom Promethea is a manifestation, sent to deliver the understanding of this plane to Material World. I just don't like being force-fed a stew of esoteric belief systems with the occasional mushroo Travelling through this plane involves jumping off a precipice, falling what seems like an eternity, waking to find yourself in a wasteland, trekking across the wasteland, then waking to find yourself still falling, and continuing the cycle again. Sophie went to Barbara in the hospital, who told her how to travel to Immateria.Sophie did so, and after some searching managed to find Stacia.She returned her to the “real” world.

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It tells the story of Sophie Bangs, a college student from an alternate futuristic New York City in 1999, who embodies the powerful entity known as Promethea whose task it is to bring the Apocalypse. Where the previous volumes felt what I would call "interesting," but by no means moving, this one feels strongly tied to the emotional arcs of the characters. I finally get a sense for what worries these people, and how Promethea's fear of being a "world-ender" presents itself to her. There are actual human beings to care about now, and that makes a huge difference to the narrative. When the time comes for the Apocalypse, Prometheas powers are increased to the level needed to affect the world.

The ninth sphere is Yesod (the Hebrew word for ’foundation’).It is the lunar realm, the land of the dead, where she shades of the departed reside.It’s draped in perpetual moonlight, giving a silvery sheen to the ghostly shades who are its main inhabitants. Barbara’s husband, Stephen Shelley, was a comic book writer.He began projecting her characteristics onto the Promethea in his comics.After Stephen’s death, Barbara found it harder to continue as Promethea without his imagination, and eventually stopped. Sophie Bangs (Promethea 1999-2004) No siempre escribimos sobre alguien ficticio que podría llegar a hacerse real mientras escribimos. No siempre hablamos sobre Promethea, porque, como bien se decía en sus anuncios, «si no existiera, tendríamos que inventarla» y precisamente sobre eso trata el cómic de Alan Moore y J. H. Williams III: una oda a la creatividad y la imaginación a través de un personaje que lo encarna, la maravillosa Promethea, que da nombre a un tebeo que trascendió todos los convencionalismos. Desde entonces, esperaba entre los archivos de mi blog, en borrador, y me sentía incapaz de rendir homenaje a Promethea tal y como se merecía, pero ahora, que busco algo de esperanza mientras escribo sobre imaginación, siento que no había mejor momento para volver a esta gran historia que nos enseñó el poder de la inventiva, el esplendor de los sueños, la magia de Promethea. Gracias por todo, Promethea. Si no existieras, tendríamos que inventarte. Y eso hacemos. By this third read, I have come to terms with the fact that I completely love it, as much as I admit that it’s difficult to enjoy. Actually, what I originally said was that I wasn’t “sure” if it’s enjoyable. And that’s the key to this series. Promethea bathes in uncertainty, and grappling with the text and all of its visual tangents and layers and literary aspirations is central to its power as a work of visual narrative.Published from 1999 till 2005, Promethea runs 32 issues. The main story concerns Sophie Bangs, a college student and is set in some weird sci-fi NYC in 1999. Sophie is researching Promethea who mysteriously pops up here and there in literature throughout the centuries. The next episodes when Promethea is introduced to the individual cards of the Tarot -remember she already learned about the suites in the immaterial - Her teaches here are the snakes in her caudacus (don't ask, just read) and.... Well, I'm not a huge fan. The snake double act is too jokey for me, artwork is good as usual, but I was into the Tarot for ages and I feel that they could have been done better. If you already know the symbolism of the Tarot (a bit of Freud and Jung will help too), I suspect there may not be much here for you other than poor rhyming. If you do not know much about the symbolism I am not sure you will come out better informed. The Five Swell Guys are a team of "science-heroes", and the only such team in New York City. There is similarity between them and The Fantastic Four, with their floating platform and their specialized members. The team meet Sophie Bangs in the first issue, and then meet Promethea in the third issue, after one is badly hurt.